publications
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15. Blanchette, F., Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E. (in press). Between a prosecutor and a convicted felon? Political allegiance, abolition, and felon’s rights in the context of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. doi.org/10.1111/asap.70043. PDF
14. Pham, M. D., Chaney, K. E., & Garr-Schultz, A. (in press). Strength-based solidarity: Shared strengths as a novel pathway toward holistic and sustained intraminority solidarity. Personality and Social Psychology Review.
13. Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E. (in press). Seeing beyond whose prejudice? Effects of perpetrator race on people of color’s willingness to engage in solidarity efforts with perpetrators of racism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi.org/10.1177/01461672251358519. PDF | Data & Materials
12. Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E. (in press). White power on trial: Perceptions of anti-racism organizations focusing on power versus discrimination. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. doi.org/10.1177/13684302251357864. PDF | Data & Materials
11. Chang, R., Pham, M. D., & Wong-Padoongpatt, G. (in press). Empowered resistance explains the relationship between historical knowledge and support for Palestine among college students. Critical Education.
10. Oswald, F., Pham, M.D., Harr, R.J, Garr-Schultz, A., & Chaney, K. E. (2025). “They are fat and want special treatment for being fat”: Backlash to and lay theories of fat activism. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 25, e7006. doi.org/10.1111/asap.70006. PDF | Data & Materials
9. Pham, M. D., Chaney, K. E., & Lin, M (in press). “Our wars are the same”: (Horizontal) collectivism is associated with lay theory of generalized prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi.org/10.1177/01461672241273274. PDF | Data & Materials
8. Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E (2024). Passing down the mic signals trustworthy intersectional allyship and promotes organizational identity-safety. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 16(6), 634-645. doi.org/10.1177/19485506241287974. PDF | Data & Materials
7. Oswald, F., Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E (2024). Development and validation of the Abolitionist Ideology Scale with abolitionist-identifying and nationally representative samples. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 1-13. doi.org/10.1111/asap.12430. PDF | Data & Materials
6. Oswald, F., & Pham, M. D. (2024). Defying carceral logics in technology-facilitated sexualized violence: The speed of technological, legal, and intersectional progress. Contemporary Justice Review, 27(4), 298-320. doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2024.2444912.
5. Pham, M. D., Chaney, K. E., & Sanchez, D. T. (2023). “I am (oppressed), therefore I see”: Multiple stigmatized identities predict belief in generalized prejudice and intraminority coalition. Self and Identity, 22(6), 1000–1026. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2023.2216941. PDF | Data & Materials
4. Pham, M. D., Chaney, K. E., & Ramírez-Esparza, N. (2024). What are we fighting for? Lay theories about the goals and motivations of anti-racism activism. Race and Social Problems, 16(1), 65–85. doi.org/10.1007/s12552-023-09393-8 PDF | Data & Materials
3. Chaney, K. E., Pham, M. D., & Cipollina, R (2024). Black Americans suppress emotions when prejudice is believed to stem from shared ignorance. Frontiers in Psychology, Social and Personality Psychology, 15, 1336552. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1336552. PDF | Data & Materials
2. Monte V., Pham, M. D., & Tsai, W (2025). Microaggressions and general health among Asian and Black Americans: The moderating role of cognitive reappraisal. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 31(1), 88–96. doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000610. PDF
1. Pham, M. D., & Borton, J. L. S. (2024). “Are you a homophobic racist?”: Applying lay theory of generalized prejudice to the discrimination-distress link. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 30(2), 273–283. doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000576 PDF | Data & Materials
manuscripts
under review
Pham, M. D, Pereira-Jorge, I. A., & Chaney, K. E. The complicit, the invisible, and the forgotten: Critically integrating intersectionality into the psychology of intraminority solidarity. Invited manuscript, Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
Pham, M. D., & Garr-Schultz, A. “They are the shoulders I stand on”: Self as part of ancestry and its implications for activism and intraminority solidarity.
Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E. Do you stand with the oppressed or the oppressor? Implications of lay theory of anti-neutral activism for engagement in activism to combat oppression.
Pham, M. D., Acevedo, A.* & Sarmal, A.* Integrating historical-materialism to critically examine solidarity motivations in the pro-Palestine movement “I’m Not Palestinian.”
Pham, M. D., & Blanchette, F. Guilty as charged: Americans’ underestimation of police violence and its abolitionist implications.
Pham, M. D., & Sarmal, A. Neutrality kills: Implications and ideological profiles of ambivalence and indifference toward the Palestine-Israel “conflict” in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. Preprint.
Blanchette, F., & Pham, M. D. Imagining new worlds: Relationships between creativity and abolitionist ideology.
Pham, M. D., & Garr-Schultz, A. “I am the dream and the hope of the slave”: Effects of ancestral self-concept on people of color’s gratitude, hope, and life meaning.
Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E. Put your money where your mouth is: Effects of racial climate and institutional support on Black Americans’ perceptions of anti-racism task forces.
Pham, M. D., Zhang, R., Garr-Schultz, A., & Chaney, K. More than trauma-bonded: Examining the cognitive and behavioral benefits of shared strengths for intraminority solidarity.
Sarmal, A., Pham, M. D., Blanchette, F. A dream of a nightmare? Creating and validating the Belief in American Dream Scale. Preprint.